Letters.

The trade you named is the same one I'm running. Passenger versus driver. The reason it's worth making isn't speed, it's that at this scale judgment shows up in the work in days, not quarters. What I want our partnership to focus on first is the misalignment you flagged. Engineering scaling fast, design and product under-resourced. The fix isn't symmetry of headcount, it's making sure design and product aren't the rate limit on what engineering wants to ship next. That's a system problem, not a hiring one. The other thing I'm sitting with from our conversation is the Google overlap. The shape of the problems you and I both worked on there is closer to what Lovable is becoming than it is to where most AI-native companies are heading. That's worth something. - Eli.